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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JANUARY 25, 2002 FBO #0054
SPECIAL NOTICE

A -- BAA 02-01 Submarine Escape, Rescue and Divers Safety Effectiveness Research and Development

Notice Date
1/23/2002
 
Notice Type
Special Notice
 
Contracting Office
Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command, NSWC Coastal Systems Station, Dahlgren Division, 6703 West Highway 98, Panama City, FL, 32407-7001
 
ZIP Code
32407-7001
 
Solicitation Number
Reference-Number-BAA02-01
 
Response Due
1/22/2004
 
Archive Date
2/6/2004
 
Point of Contact
Mary Hines, Contract Specialist, Phone (850) 235-5389, Fax (850) 234-4251, - Carol Dreger, Contracting Officer, Phone (850) 234-4863, Fax (850) 234-4251,
 
E-Mail Address
HinesMF@ncsc.navy.mil, DregerCA@ncsc.navy.mil
 
Description
BAA 02-01: The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Coastal Systems Station (NSWC DD COAST SYSTA), Panama City, Florida is soliciting pre-proposals and proposals for applied biomedical research focusing on Submarine Escape, Rescue, Diving Safety, and Effectiveness. The goals of this program are presented in more details below. It is the intent that this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) be opened for a period of two years from the date of this publication (or until 1/22/2004). However, specified dates are given in paragraph (2) below for submission of pre-proposals and proposals to be awarded within FY 2003. (1) Primary Interests This program?s objective is to focus on diving and submarine rescue survivability and escape research that can be rapidly transitioned to fleet capabilities by improved procedures or increased levels of safety and survivability. The typically project will be two years or less although three year projects are considered. The areas of primary interest in submarine escape and rescue are: (1) increasing survival in a disabled submarine to seven days through improved carbon dioxide removal, control of oxygen at non-toxic levels, improved measurement and control of atmospheric contaminants, prevention of pressure build-up, prevention of hypothermia, and improved first aid measures for trauma and illness; (2) extending the capability for escape to depths deeper than 600 feet through improved escape procedures and equipment; (3) extending the capability for rescue under pressure to 5 ATA through novel means to accelerate or eliminate saturation decompression; and (4) improving medical treatment of escape and rescue casualties though improved diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, better definition of surface interval risk, better techniques to triage casualties, non-recompressive treatments of decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism, and techniques for management of hypothermia in hyperbaric chambers. The areas of primary interest in diving safety and effectiveness are: (1) objective diagnostic test(s) for DCS and AGE; (2) prospective and/or retrospective studies of the risk associated with patent foramen ovale (PFO); (3) improving our understanding of the pathogenesis of decompression sickness (DCS) and arterial gas embolism (AGE) in humans though imaging of damaged tissue, non-invasive measurement of intramedulary pressure in bone, measurement of electrophysiological, immunological, and biochemical correlates of DCS and AGE; (4) improving the safety and effectiveness of diving in contaminated water through development of field-deployable screening tests for biologic and chemical contamination, improved laboratory assays for contaminants in salt and brackish water, estimates of the amount of contaminated water inhaled and swallowed with different classes of diving equipment, estimates of chemical absorption rates through wet skin, development of decontamination techniques including rapid decontamination techniques that will allow employment of surface decompression tables, and improved risk assessment and management techniques (Current contaminated water scenarios of greatest interest are fuel oils, human remains, PCB's, and heavy metals); (5) improving ability of free-swimming and tethered divers to operate in thermal extremes (both hot and cold) through improved suit materials, insulating materials, heat exchangers, and heat storage devices, and through physiologic study to determine optimal warming and cooling methods; (6) improving decompression procedures through human studies on the optimal placement of decompression stops and optimal use of oxygen during decompression, use of nitrogen to accelerate decompression from helium-oxygen dives, and quantification of acclimation and "over decompression" phenomena in divers; (7) minimizing the risk of oxygen poisoning through improved understanding of cerebral blood flow / arterial CO2 relationships, improved central nervous system and pulmonary risk modeling, prophylaxis, and early warning or continuous monitoring of personnel for adverse effects; (8) refining understanding of hypercapnia in divers through direct measurement of arterial carbon dioxide tension under immersed hyperbaric conditions, and development of predictive equations relating end-tidal carbon dioxide tension to arterial tension; and (9) developing a means to measure arterial carbon dioxide tension accurately and non-invasively. (2) Instructions for Preparation of Pre-proposal and Proposals The deadline for submission of pre-proposals is 3:00 PM CST, 22 March 2002 for the funding cycle that begins 1 October 2002, and the deadline for submission of full technical proposals is 3:00 PM CST, 7 June 2002. Pre-proposals and proposals received after their respective due dates will be considered only if funds remain available. The format for pre-proposals and proposals may be obtained from the Program Assistant, Lisa Williams at 850-230-3205 or E-mail: williamslm@nedu.navsea.navy.mil. The Pre-proposal should be three to five pages of text and should include an estimate of overall costs (including indirect) for a three-year effort. A curriculum vita of the principal investigator(s) should be appended together with any supporting information, such as reprints or preprints, which will assist in the evaluation of the pre-proposal. Offerors submitting the most promising pre-proposals will be invited to submit a full technical and cost proposal on all or part of their pre-proposal submission. However, any such invitation does not assure a subsequent award. Any offeror may submit a full technical proposal even if its pre-proposal was not identified as promising or if no pre-proposal is submitted; however any full proposal submission would be made without the benefit of feedback prior to full proposal submission. A completed DoD animal use protocol with supporting documentation is required when animals are employed. Any proposal that involves the experimental use of human subjects must include a separate evaluation of proposed technical approaches and associated risks by the contractor?s committee for protection of human subjects. This evaluation must conform with current Department of the Navy instructions relating to the use of human subjects. Offerors must state in their pre-proposals and full proposals that it is submitted in response to this BAA. This BAA provides no funding for pre-proposals or subsequent proposal development purposes. All pre-proposals will be acknowledged. Proposals will not be returned after evaluation. (3) Criteria for Selecting Proposals, their Relative Importance, and the Method of Evaluation Pre-proposal and full technical proposal submissions will be evaluated on the (1) overall basis of innovation and scientific merit; (2) relevance to submarine escape, rescue, and diving; (3) the qualifications and experience of the proposed investigator and key personnel; (4) the offeror?s capabilities, related experience, facilities, techniques or unique combinations of these that are integral factors for achieving the proposal objectives; (5) realism of the proposed cost and availability of funds. The Government reserves the right to select for funding any, all, part or none of the responses received. For efforts funded as contracts, evaluation of the socio-economic merits will include the extent of commitment in providing meaningful subcontracting opportunities for small business, small disadvantaged business, woman-owned small business concerns, and historically black colleges and universities. This is to notify potential offerors that each contract that may be placed under this announcement, or solicitation to an institution of higher education must include the following clause: ?As a condition for receipt of funds available to the Department of Defense (DoD) under this award, the recipient agrees that it is not an institution that has a policy of denying, and that it is not an institution that effectively prevents, the Secretary of Defense from obtaining for military recruiting purposes: (A) and entry to campuses or access to students on campuses; or (B) access to directory information pertaining to students. If the recipient is determined, using procedures established by the Secretary of Defense to implement Section 558 of Public Law 103-337 (1994), to be such an institution during the period of performance of this agreement, and therefore to be in breach of this clause, the Government will cease all payments of DoD funds under this agreement and all other DoD grants and cooperative payments unilaterally for material failure to comply with the terms and conditions of award.? If your institution has been identified under the procedures established by the Secretary of Defense to implement Section 558, then: (1) no funds available to DoD may be provided to your institution through any contract, including any existing contract, (2) as a matter of policy, this restriction also applies to any cooperative agreement, and (3) your institution is not eligible to receive a contract or cooperative agreement in response to this solicitation." See instructions above for pre-proposals and proposals. The Government?s preference is to award definitive contracts under this BAA. However, an award can be made via grant at the sole discretion of the Government. All responsive sources may submit proposals that will be considered by NSWC DD COASTSYSTA. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Minority Institutions (MI) are encouraged to submit proposals or join others in submitting proposals; however, no portion of this BAA will be set aside for HBCU and MI participation due to the impracticality of reserving discrete and severable areas of submarine escape, rescue, and diving for exclusive competition among these entities. This announcement constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) as contemplated in FAR 6.102(d) (2) (i). The Government reserves the right to select for award all, some, or none of the proposals received in response to this announcement. Questions regarding this announcement should be directed to the Contract Specialist identified herein. Technical content questions should be addressed to CAPT Henry Schwartz, Deep Submergence Biomedical Development Program Manager, (202) 781-4361. Interested parties are invited to respond to this synopsis. All responsible parties will be considered. POC and address to mail pre-proposal and proposals: Coastal Systems Station, Naval Experimental Diving Unit, 321 Bullfinch Rd., Panama City, FL 32407-7015, Attn: Lisa Williams, Code 02; or E-mail: williamslm@nedu.navsea.navy.mil. The following additional information is provided: (1) proposals may be submitted by any commercial firm, or institution of higher education (there is no longer a requirement that the entity be U.S. in origin), (2) not withstanding the dates specified in this BAA Proposals may be submitted any time prior to expiration of the BAA, (3) the following e-mail point of contact is provided for information regarding technical programs/technologies of interest within the two areas identified: CAPT Henry Schwartz (SchwartzHJ@NAVSEA.NAVY.MIL), and (4) the following e-mail points of contact are provided for information regarding contractual issues: Primary POC - Ms. Mary Hines (HinesMF@ncsc.navy.mil) Backup POC - Ms. Carol Dreger (DregerCA@ncsc.navy.mil
 
Place of Performance
Address: Coastal Systems Station, Dahlgren Division, NSWC, Code XP10, 6703 W. Hwy. 98, Panama City, FL
Zip Code: 32407-7001
Country: U.S.A
 
Record
SN20020125/00018084-020123210321 (fbodaily.com)
 
Source
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